The Weather Outside Is Frightful!

Snow days are just not what they used to be! When I was a child and the call was made to close school for the day, the hoards of children in the neighborhood put on their snow boots, snow pants, heavy coats, gloves, hats, and grabbed those sleds. We went sledding down the hill where Herbertsville and Beaver Dam Rd. meet and had a blast! Later on in the day snowmen were made with all the trimmings, and a final snowball fight was a major event. Don’t even get me started on the awesome snow forts we used to create.

Well, those days are certainly behind us. At least they are behind me. Today Ohio State made the extremely rare, but exciting, call that classes would be cancelled! I never thought this day would come. They must have heard my curses as I trudged through snow up to my shins yesterday walking through the oval. They informed us at 6:30 this morning (even though they were most likely aware of this decision last night when Columbus city schools shut down – sneaky aren’t they?). I jumped around my room for about three minutes, turned off my dreaded alarm clock that was due to go off fifteen seconds later, and fell back asleep for five hours.

I realized that today’s snow day was not like the ones of my childhood when I got really excited…to get more work done! Yes you heard me correctly. I have tons and tons of homework (so much work that I probably need another snow day tomorrow, but that’s just wishful thinking), and today is the perfect day to get all that work done! Well, some of it anyway. And this made me happy?! Yes, yes it did. I guess I have left the days of snowball fights for good. At 1pm today I was still in my pajamas, finished a paper, I’m still working on completing three books, perfecting my presentation due Thursday, and planning out finals week. We are in week 7 of our 10-week quarter. This is no time to play around people! So yes, we poor unfortunate souls in Columbus, Ohio had a snow day, and it definitely made me realize that those days of innocent fun sledding down the Summit Drive hill are gone. It was nice while it lasted.